Homework for Fall 2020

Professor Battle Black America Homework for Fall 2020

Homework Assigned

(These assignments are due the following week)

Week 1 Email Juan top three rank-ordered preferences for presentation topic

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Overview of Black America I

Readings:

* Hunter M, Robinson Z. 2016. The Sociology of Urban Black America. Annual Review of Sociology, 42:385–405. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-081715-074356

* New York Times’ 1619 Project

https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf

* Podcast: The Invention of Race from course website.

Week 2 Overview of Black America II: Intellectuals and Activists

(9/14) Readings:

* DuBois WEB . 1904a . The talented tenth. In The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of Today, ed. BT Washington. New York: James Pott

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-talented-tenth/

* DuBois WEB. 1903 (2003). The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Barnes & Noble Class.

* Washington BT. 1901. Up from Slavery. Amazon Classics

* Washington BT. 1895. The Atlanta Cotton States Exposition Address. History Matters, GMU. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/

* Giddings, PJ. 2009. Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. Amistad press

Barnett IW . 1991 . Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, ed. T Harris. New York: Oxford Univ. Press

Hine DC, Hine WC, Harrold S. 2014. African Americans: A Concise History; Combined Volume, 5th Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson

Painter NI. 2007. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Tucker, D. M. (1971). Miss Ida B. Wells and Memphis Lynching. Phylon (1960-), 32(2), 112- 122.

Proposal:

Do CITI Training

Week 3 Historical Perspective(s) I: Theories and Theorists

(9/21) Readings:

* Crenshaw K, et al. 1996. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. The New Press

* Marable M, Mullings L. 2015. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society. Haymarket Books.

*Young AA, Deskins DR. 2001. Traditions of African-American Sociological Thought. Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 27:445-477. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.445

Bonilla-Silva E. 2013. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. New York: Roman & Littlefield. 4th ed

Coates T. 2011. The Great Schism: From their onsets, suffragists and abolitionists shared many of the same values, so what caused the movements to split apart. The Atlantic.

Drake St. C, Cayton H . 1993 [1945] . Black Metropolis. Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press

DuBois WEB . 1996 [1899a] . The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia : Univ. Penn. Press

Frazier EF . 1932 . The Negro Family In Chicago. Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press Marable M. 1998. Black Leadership. Columbia University Press

Jones A. 2013. The Modern African American Political Thought Reader. New York: Routledge

Park RE, Burgess E . 1921 . An Introduction to the Science of Sociology. Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press

Other:

Email Juan five books (APA citation); two of which Juan will select for you to present on the last day of class.

Week 4 Historical Perspective(s) II: The Human Experience

(10/14: Readings: Wed.) *Wilkerson I. 2011. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Vintage Books

*Marable M, Mullings L. 2009. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology. New York: Rowan & Littlefield

Washington J. 1991. A Testament of Hope : The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. HarperOne

Zinn H. 1995. A People’s History of the United States, 1942 – Present. HarperPerennial

Proposal: Do one-page proposal

Week 5 Class, Race, and Their Intersections (I): Black Poverty In America

(10/19) Readings:

* Collins PH. 2015. Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 41:1–20. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112142

* Economic State of Black America in 2020. Joint Economic Committee Report. https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/ccf4dbe2-810a-44f8-b3e7- 14f7e5143ba6/economic-state-of-black-america-2020.pdf.

* Wilson, W. (2003). Race, class and urban poverty: A rejoinder. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26(6), 1096-1114.

* Wilson, W. J. (2006). Social theory and the concept 'underclass'. In K.-S. Rehberg (Ed.), Soziale Ungleichheit, kulturelle Unterschiede: Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München. Teilbd. 1 und 2 (pp. 90-104). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verl. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-145477’

* Wilson, William Julius. 2011. The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised. Daedalus 140.2: 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00077

* Wilson, W. (2013). Combating Concentrated Poverty in Urban Neighborhoods. Journal of Applied Social Science, 7(2), 135-143.

* Wilson, W. (2009). The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621(1), 34-46.

* Quane, J., Wilson, W., & Hwang, J. (2015). Black men and the struggle for work: Social and economic barriers persist. Education Next, 15(2), 22-29.

* Wilson W. 2011. Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces. American Educator. Spring: 10-23.

* Darity, W. (2011). REVISITING THE DEBATE ON RACE AND CULTURE. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 8(2), 467-476.

* Gould, M. (2011). REVISITING THE DEBATE ON RACE AND CULTURE. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 8(2), 476-488. DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X1100052X

* Wilson, William Julius. 2011. More Than Just Race: A Response to William Darity, Jr. and Mark Gould. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 8(2): 489-495.

Grusky, D. 2014. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 4th Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press

Massey DS, Denton M. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press

Wilson WJ. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press

Proposal:

Do 2nd Draft of One-Page Proposal

Do 20 References

Week 6 Class, Race, and their Intersections (II): Black Middle & Privileged Classes In America (10/26) Readings:

* Frazier EF. 1954. Black Bourgeoisie. New York: Free Press

* Graham O. 1999. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. Harper Perennial

* Pattillo M. 1999 (2014). Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press

* Cose E. 1994. The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care? Harper Perennial

Keister LA. 2014. The One Percent. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 40:347–67. Doi: 10.1146/annurev- soc-070513-075314

Lacy K. 2007. Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press

Pattillo M. 2007. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press

Robinson E. 2011. Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. Anchor Press Taylor ED. 2018. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era. Armistad Press.

Wills S. 2019. Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires. Amistad Press

Woldoff RA. 2011. White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press - Specifically chapter called “Black Flight”

Proposal:

Start a complete “structure” of the final proposal (for Juan’s eyes), with as much of it done as possible.

More specifically, put the proposal together with a reasonable attempt at the following:

a. abstract b. background c. methods d. references e. timeline f. budget g. irb/human subjects

Week 7 #SayHerName

(11/2) Readings:

* Davis AY. 1983. Women, Race, & Class. Vintage Press.

* Giddings PJ. 2007. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. W. Morrow Press.

* Hull A. 2015. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. Feminist Press at CUNY.

Bell JD. 2018. Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New Press

Collins PH. 2008. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge.

Guy-Sheftall B. 1995. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. New Press hooks b. 1981 . Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston : South End

Lorde A, Clark C. 2007. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press

McClaurin I. 2001. Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics. Rutgers University Press

Obama M. 2018. Becoming. Crown Publishing Group

Ransby B. 2005. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press.

Rice C. 2012. A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me. Ember Press

Rice S. 2019. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. Simon & Schuster

Smith B. 2000. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Rutgers University Press

Proposal:

Finalize a complete “structure” of the final proposal (for Juan’s eyes), with as much of it done as possible.

More specifically, put the proposal together with a reasonable attempt at the following:

a. abstract b. background c. methods d. references e. timeline f. budget g. irb/human subjects

Week 8 Proposal:

(11/9) Complete PDF draft (for peer review) is due, in its entirety and in the required structure, at the beginning of the next class session/meeting. Again, you will need:

a. abstract b. background c. methods d. references e. timeline f. budget g. irb/human subjects

Week 9 Queering Black America

(11/16) Readings:

* Carbado DW, McBride D. 2011. Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction. Cleis Press

* Cohen CJ. 1999. The Boundaries of Blackness. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press

* Schilt K, Lagos D. 2017. The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology Kristen Schilt and Danya Lagos. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 43:425–43. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116- 053348

Battle J, Barnes SL. 2009. Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies. Rutgers University Press

Beam J. 2007. In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology. Redbone Press

Bost D. 2018. Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence. University of Chicago Press

Ferguson, RA. 2003. Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique. Univ Of Minnesota Press.

Gamson J. 2006. Fabulous Sylvester. Picador Press. Johnson EP. 2005. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Duke University Press

Moore M. 2011. Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women. University of California Press

Mumford K. 2019. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis. University of North Carolina Press

Reid-Pharr R. 2007. Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. NYU Press

Richardson M. 2016. The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution. Ohio State University Press

Snorton CR. 2017. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press

Proposal:

Do blind reviews of three of your colleagues’ proposals.

Three reviewers’ comments are due at the beginning of the next meeting. The comments should be about 750 words long (~ three pages).

Only one set of comments are needed for EACH proposal reviewed.

When reviewing proposals, be sure to give specific suggestions to help your colleagues produce a better proposal.

For the purpose of practice, as best you can, make your comments such that the author cannot figure out who the review is. Follow the format provided in class.

In addition to your qualitative/written review of EACH proposal, also provide a quantitative assessment for EACH proposal (template will be provided).

I also encourage you to make grammar corrections, either in your qualitative assessment or via track changes.

Again, each review will have three components: the edited proposal (track changes), the qualitative review (your comments), and the quantitative assessment (see template from class).

Week 10 “Criminal” (In)Justice System

(11/23) Readings:

* 13th Film. 2016. Netflix Movie

* Alexander M. 2012. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press

* Hardeman RR, et al. June 10, 2020. Stolen Breaths. New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2021072.

* NYTimes. 2020. How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody | Visual Investigations (9:31). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksEJR9EPQ8

Stevenson, B. 2015. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. One World

Morris M. 2018. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. The New Press

Proposal:

Work on a second draft of your proposal, while focusing on addressing/incorporating the comments of the reviewers.

A complete 2nd PDF draft (for peer review) is due, in its entirety and in the required structure, at the beginning of the next class session/meeting.

The first few pages of the PDF should be the (cover) letter to the “evaluator” explicating how you incorporated the comments from the reviewers on the 1st version of the proposal (see sample provided).

Week 11 Intersections of the 21st Century

(11/30) Readings:

* Khan-Cullors P, bandele a. 2020. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. St. Martin's Griffin Press

* Parker, CS. 2016. Race and Politics in the Age of Obama. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 42:217–30. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-081715-074246

* Ransby B. 2018. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press

Adichie CN. 2014. Americanah. Anchor press

Coates T. 2015. Between the World and Me. One World Press.

Grillo E. 2000. Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir. Arte Publico Press

hooks b. 2014. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge

Kendi IX. 2019. How to Be an Antiracist. One World Press

Lebron C. 2018. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea. Oxford University Press

Valdez, Z. 2017. Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

Proposal:

Do blind reviews on 2nd drafts of three of your colleagues’ proposals.

Three reviewers’ comments are due at the beginning of the next meeting. The comments should be about 750 words long (~ three pages).

Only one set of comments are needed for EACH proposal reviewed.

When reviewing proposals, be sure to give specific suggestions to help your colleagues produce a better proposal.

For the purpose of practice, as best you can, make your comments such that the author cannot figure out who the review is. Follow the format provided in class.

In addition to your qualitative/written review of EACH proposal, also provide a quantitative assessment for EACH proposal (template will be provided).

I also encourage you to make grammar corrections, either in your qualitative assessment or via track changes.

Again, each review will have three components: the edited proposal (track changes), the qualitative review (your comments), and the quantitative assessment (see template from class).

Week 12 Proposal:

(12/7) Work on final draft of your proposal, while focusing on addressing/incorporating the comments of the reviewers.

The final proposal is due, in its entirety and in the required structure, on Monday, 12/14 @ 2pmET.

Course Review:

Produce a one-page course review Week 13 The final proposal is due, in its entirety and in the required structure, today @ 2pmET.

(12/14)